Angela Andrews, wife and mother of Martin and Jack Andrews who died in Huddersfield canal

He said: “The officer spoke to the wife who stated that her husband and son had not returned home and it was out of character for them not to be home before lunchtime.”

He added that pathologist Dr Lisa Barker said both father and son had died from drowning.

Mrs Andrews, who didn’t attend the inquest, told ITV Yorkshire earlier: “I feel like I have been robbed of my future. I told them that when I went to see them at the Chapel of Rest, like how can you leave us like that?”

Martin Andrews, who died while out magnet fishing at Cooper Bridge with his son Jack

The two had left their home in Pudsey early on Saturday morning to go magnet fishing, a new hobby they had recently taken up.

Mrs Andrews said: “I never got to kiss him goodbye that morning because I was in the shower when they left.

“And my last words to them were: ‘Stay safe, be careful. Don’t go in the water.’

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The inquest heard that sadly their bodies were found near the floodgates.

Mrs Andrews said: “They were together in the bottom of the lock, round each other, so it looked like one had fallen in, the other had gone after.

“They’re both heroes to me, they’ve tried to save each other.”

She said they had only recently discovered the hobby of magnet fishing and had bonded over collecting old and unusual items. The hobby involves a large magnet being dragged along the canal or river bottom on a rope which drags up all kinds of metallic objects.

She said: “It came about because my brother came across a bottle - an old glass bottle in a river and really wanted to find out about it and he thought I wonder what else we could find.